Fresh

 IT DOESN'T GET 

MUCH FRESHER THAN THIS!

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, 

and stand in deep contemplation 

over my vegetable progeny with a love 

that nobody could share or conceive of 

who had never taken part in the process of creation.  

It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world 

to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, 

or a rose of early peas just peeping forth 

sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. 

  

~Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse